Published March 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Research on Coupling Between RELAP5 and CFX Codes

Creators

  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Reactor System Design Technology, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu (China)
  • 2. Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)

Description

Based on system code RELAP5 and computational fluid dynamics code CFX, the RELAP5/CFX coupled code was developed by means of parallel virtual machines technique and CFX USER FORTRAN. Under the single phase state, verification of coupling between the two codes was performed with horizontal pipe blowdown problem firstly. Then a double T-junction mixing experiment was simulated. Compared with RELAP5 stand-alone calculations, the coupled code reveals three-dimensional mixing phenomena more clearly. Through more researches and development, the coupled code will be used for mixing problems in the nuclear reactor safety analysis. (authors)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Atomic Energy Science and Technology
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 304-308
ISSN
1000-6931

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Notes
10 figs., 5 refs.